Toilet-paper package.



' 'No. 69|,294. Patented Ian. M, I902.

' F. SCHILZ.

TOILET PAPER PACKAGE.

Application filed May 4. 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

FRANK SOHILZ, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO HUGO LOEWENBACH, OFMILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

TOILET-PAPER PAC KAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,294, dated January14, 1902.

Application filed May 4, 1901. Serial No. 58,834. (No model.)

toilet-paper to provide cabinets for their pa-' trons in which the papermay be placed and subsequently withdrawn in single sheets. Thesecabinets have been furnished or leased to the patrons free of charge solong as the paper furnished by the owner of the cabinet is used. It hasbeen found,however, that nu merous patrons will use the cabinets forpaper purchased of others, and rival'dealers have frequently encouragedthis practice by preparing and selling paper packages of the exact sizerequired to fit the cabinets, thus defrau ding the owner of thecabinets, who has been put to a large expense in providing them.

In a former application, filed October 9, 1900, Serial No. 32,496, forLetters Patent of the United States for paper holders and folders, Ihave shown a form of cabinet the side walls of which are provided withinwardly-projecting flanges extending from the back or rear wall to apoint near the discharge-rollers, which are centrally located adjacenttow the front wall, the function of these flanges being to support aloose package of sheets of paper within the cabinet-walls to prevent theinsertion of any package of paper which is not specially formed to fitthe cabinet.

The object of the presentinvention is to provide a form of packageadapted to fit the cabinet shown in the aforesaid application, thepeculiar form of the package being designed to serve the double purposeof securing a support in the cabinet and preventing fraud, as the shapeof the cabinet will preclude the insertion of other paper than that madein accordance with the construction herein claimed.

In the following description reference is had to the accompanyingdrawing, in which the figure is a perspective view of my invention.

The package 1 is formed of a series of flatlydisposed sheets of "paper,preferably rectangular in form and unsecured at any point. The sideedges of the package are provided with notches 2 and 3, whichextendinwardly and partially subdivide the package at or near itstransverse median line. It will be observed that these notches arecoincident for all the sheets of the package, and when the package isinserted in the cabinet the notches are adapted to register with thecorresponding side flanges of the cabinet, the flanges then serving tosupport the paper by their engagement in the notches, while preventingpaper from being inserted in the cabinet, which is not similarlynotched. The notches and flanges are of such depth thatit the sheetswere made no wider than the distance between the notches they would beuseless.

It will be understood that I do not limit the scope of this invention tothe provision of two notches, as a single notch in one side of thepackage may be employed, if desired, although for the purpose ofadequately supporting the paper in the cabinet two notches should beformed in the opposing sides.

It will be observed that the package is rectangular in form, and thenotches are formed in the longer sides near the center or transversemedian line or so as to divide the sheets of the package into tworectangular portions having their longer sides extending transversely ofthe package, the sheets being adapted to be folded on the line of thenotches. This construction enables me to provide sheets of the requisitesize without making the package so long that the sheets will sag ordouble within the cabinet. As the packages are prepared for use in thespecific style of cabinet above referred to, which feeds the sheets in adouble or folded position, it is obvious that the sheets must be of suchsize and shape and the notches so located that each section will form acomplete sheet on each side of the notch.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A toilet-paper package, comprising a series of flatly-disposed,rectangular sheets of tissuepaper, said package being provided withnotches in its longer side edges, adapted 1 portion of the sheets,except as a connection to partially subdivide the sheets into tworecbetween the upper and lower portions, subtangular portions havingtheir longer side stantially for the purpose set forth.

edges extending transversely of the package, In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature 5 substantially for the purpose set forth. in thepresence of two witnesses.

O a. A tollet paper package, comprislng a se FRANK SCHILZ ries offlatly-disposed sheets of paper, and

having notches in its side edges at or near its Witnesses:

transverse median line, of such depth as to LEVERETT 0. WHEELER, 1opractically destroy the utility of the central LYMAN G. WHEELER.

